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Wings Paige Bueckers’ long slippage on the return to Connecticut

May 27, 2025; Uncasville, Connecticut, USA; Dallas Wings Forward Maddy Siegrist (20) is hitting a three-point basket against Connecticut Sun Olivia Nelson-Oh in the first half of Mohegan Sun Arena. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Images Images

It was the first win of the season for a winning house for Paige Bueckers and Dallas Wings.

Bueckers, who played his first match professionally in the college state, made a 109-87 victory against Connecticut Sun on Tuesday, Tuesday, and made a career at the highest career and seven assists.

Dallas (1-4) broke a 13-game loss line dating back to last season. The Sun fell to 0-5, the worst beginnings of the first five in 2020.

Wings’s 109 points scored the most goals by any WNBA team this season, and eight franchise records were broken.

Bueckers, the number 1 general election in the 2025 WNBA Draft, was met with cheering from the Sellout crowd, familiar to the abuse for nearby Connecticut Huskies throughout the game. He took Huskies to the Final Four four times, including the national title in April.

Arika Ogunbowale received 19 points for wings, including a stretch in the third quarter. After playing with the Sun for four years, Dijonai Carrington, who made him return to Connecticut, had 16 for Dallas.

Tina Charles directed Connecticut with 27 points. Marina Mabrey added 19 points and Bria Hartley was 12.

Dallas hit 56.1 percent from the ground and threw 19 points from 17 Sun turnover.

The wings shattered their seasons with 56 first half points and hit 54.5 percent from the ground, set out with the Bueckers 15, mostly in the Pull-up Jumper near the free throw line.

Both teams fired in the first quarter in the first quarter, and Hartley fired a 24-23 sun lead on the horn when a train sank 1.6 seconds before.

Dallas dominated the second quarter, and WNBA took control with 11-0 jogging from Aziaha James, the first scores of his career. In the first half, the bullet grew up to 17.

Connecticut responded with a move and withdrew to 56-42 for five flat points of Rivers.

When Charles scored a goal in a spin movement to start the fourth quarter, the Sun was 88-76 years old, but Dallas withdrew 8-0. Bueckers left 4:09.

The wings lost their knee injury and did not return after the circuit.

-FELD level media

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